Artworks made for “Pasika” Magazine. ISSSUE #3 “BODY LANGUAGE”. 2018

In this project I am talking about the female body from the perspective of socially well established discursive model. It brings up an issue of how we discuss and perceive female physicality based on the past and current influence coming from the five major social institutions which are family, education, economy, government and religion. The high frequency of using the cliché terminology, generous and oversimplified vocabulary, as well as the use of basic associated shapes and colors within a discourse on the female body matter, that is presented in works “Untitled #2-4”, rather specifies that we have rigid intangible frames that whether we are not able or are not allowed to break and move on. These verbal or non-verbal (visual) labels that are tagged on female body may even objectify it sexually, as it is shown in the work “Untitled #1”. Objectification is widely spread over the world of promotion. 

Nevertheless, the use of a collage technique in a way adds some sort of ambivalence to the aforesaid statements. On the one hand, in works “Untitled #1-4” there are these predetermined, objectified, and commonly used shapes that serve to be as indicators of female body recognition, while at the same time the collage itself is a perfect tool that shows a possibility of the potential freedom. Mixture of shapes, color combinations and the ability to rearrange pieces in this collage designates how actually free we are in our individual perception of body and the way of how we can talk about it. We have a freedom to deconstruct and rebuild it. This project provides an insight to the conceivable idea “how else can it be” and leaves you the right to individually determine this “how”.